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Tightening 🇱🇸 Lesotho

Basutoland's chiefs are ordered to destroy cannabis

Index score

1613

−3 points

A Paramount Chief's order told all chiefs to destroy cannabis in their areas. Rule 27 of the Paramount Chief's rules, made under a 1938 proclamation, said no person shall grow, possess or use dagga, on pain of a fine of up to 25 pounds or six months in prison.[1]

Score by segment 0 to 10

  1. Possession · 25%1 1
  2. Personal cultivation · 25%2 1−1
  3. Punishment & enforcement · 20%3 3
  4. Sharing & gifting · 10%1 1
  5. Consumption · 10%1 1
  6. Legal access · 10%0 0

The bar shows the score after the change; the tick marks where it stood before. Lesotho's scores have changed again since.

References

  1. United Nations — Survey of the cannabis situation in Basutoland, E/CN.7/286/Add.1 (1955)archived

Checked. The date and the event were compared with a source that was read. The score before the change is an editorial estimate.

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